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Unfortunately, while some DVD publishers, like [[Paramount Pictures]] and [[Dreamworks Animation]], offer described soundtrack settings, the feature so far is nowhere near as common as subtitles or closed captioning, although organizations that assist the visually impaired are doing their best to offer videos with it. There's also the problem that the menus accessing the feature are still entirely visual in presentation, so any seriously visually impaired person will need the help of a sighted person to access the feature.
One of the problems with DVS on television is that because only one additional audio track via SAP was usually offered in the analog age before television was switched to digital, DVS had to compete with foreign language translation tracks (mainly Spanish in the United States, French in Canada), and usually [[Networks]] want more viewers rather than provide a public service and preferred translation to description. Many stations don't bother at all with SAP channels so they can [[Executive Meddling|avoid complaints]] from disgruntled viewers who changed to SAP accidentally about [[Too Dumb to Live|how some guy keeps butting in explaining the obvious]], [[What an Idiot!|why Courteney Cox has a different accent and speaks Spanish]], or why a mechanical voice is delivering forecasts to them (most stations with a SAP channel carry a local government weather radio service when DVS or translation isn't needed). This can be annoying when the feature is advertised by a network and isn't there for a viewer in their market.
An attempt by the [[FCC]] to mandate DVS in most primetime programming for the largest 25 United States television markets (in effect mandating it nationwide as said markets cover all time zones and networks wouldn't offer non-DVS feeds to other markets based on simple costs) was declared unconstitutional in the courts in 2002, and thus only in the digital age when multiple language tracks can be sent over a television broadcast or be placed on a [[Blu Ray]] has DVS been able to have a footing beyond PBS and [[Turner Classic Movies]], the two biggest supporters of DVS.
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